For more than six years, jobbers in Missouri have fought back efforts to impose a 10% ethanol mandate. Now marketers fear that a changing political climate in the state will result in mandatory ethanol use by 2007, if not before. Perceiving a losing battle, the state's jobbers and dealers have opted instead to try to modify any mandate so that it protects both consumers and fuel marketers. In an e-mail message to the governor's office, state legislative leaders, and sponsors of ethanol mandate legislation, marketers say they will "conditionally support" a statewide 10% ethanol mandate, as long as certain safeguards are built in.
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